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| '''Comparative history''' is the comparison between different societies at a given time or sharing similar cultural conditions. Leading scholars include American historians [[Barrington Moore]] and [[Herbert E. Bolton]]; British historians [[Arnold J. Toynbee]] and [[Geoffrey Barraclough]]; and German historian [[Oswald Spengler]]. Several sociologists have tried their hand, including [[Max Weber]], [[Pitirim Sorokin]], [[S. N. Eisenstadt]], [[Seymour Martin Lipset]], Charles Tilly, and Michael Mann. | | '''Comparative history''' is the comparison between different societies at a given time or sharing similar cultural conditions. Leading scholars include American historians [[Barrington Moore]] and [[Herbert E. Bolton]]; British historians [[Arnold J. Toynbee]] and [[Geoffrey Barraclough]]; and German historian [[Oswald Spengler]]. Several sociologists have tried their hand, including [[Max Weber]], [[Pitirim Sorokin]], [[S. N. Eisenstadt]], [[Seymour Martin Lipset]], Charles Tilly, and Michael Mann. |
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| Historians generally accept the comparison of particular institutions (slavery, agriculture, technology, banking, women's rights, ethnic identities) in different societies, but since the hostile reaction to Toynbee in the 1950s, generally do not pay much attention to sweeping comparative studies. | | Historians generally accept the comparison of particular institutions (slavery, agriculture, technology, banking, women's rights, ethnic identities) in different societies, but since the hostile reaction to Toynbee in the 1950s, generally do not pay much attention to sweeping comparative studies. |
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| ==Bibliography==
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| * Barraclough, Geoffrey. ''Main Trends in History,'' (1979) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105793227 online version]
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| * Cohen, Deborah. and Maura O'Connor; ''Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective.'' Routledge, 2004 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107994239 online edition]
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| * Cooper, Frederick. "Race, Ideology, and the Perils of Comparative History." ''American Historical Review,'' 101:4 (October 1996), 1122-1138. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(199610)101%3A4%3C1122%3ARIATPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E in JSTOR]
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| * Doyle; Michael W. ''Empires.'' Cornell University Press. 1986. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103731131 online edition]
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| * Englander, David, ed. ''Britain and America: Studies in Comparative History, 1760-1970.'' 1997. 317 pp.
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| * Frederickson, George M. "From Exceptionalism to Variability: Recent Developments in Cross-National Comparative History." ''Journal of American History'' 82:2 (September 1995), 587-604. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723(199509)82%3A2%3C587%3AFETVRD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 in JSTOR]
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| * Fredrickson, George M. ''The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements.'' 1997. 241 pp.
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| * Halperin, Charles J. et al. " AHR Forum: Comparative History in Theory and Practice: A Discussion." ''American Historical Review,'' 87:1 (February 1982), 123-143. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(198202)87%3A1%3C123%3ACHITAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 in JSTOR]
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| * Hill, Alette Olin and Boyd H. Hill. "AHR Forum: Marc Bloch and Comparative History." ''The American Historical Review'' 85:4 (October 1980), 828-846. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(198010)85%3A4%3C828%3AMBACH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L in JSTOR]
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| * Jones, Eric. ''The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia.'' 1981. 276 pp.
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| * Kolchin, Peter. ''A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective.'' (2003) 132pp ISBN 0-8071-2866-X.)
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| * Mazlish, Bruce. ''Conceptualizing Global History.'' (1993).
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| * McGerr, Michael. "The Price of the 'New Transnational History.'" ''American Historical Review'' 96:4 (October 1991), 1056-1067. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(199110)96:4%3C1056:TPOT%22T%3E2.0.CO;2-L in JSTOR]
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| * Magnaghi; Russell M. ''Herbert E. Bolton and the Historiography of the Americas'' Greenwood Press, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9162976 online edition]
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| * Rusen, Jorn. "Some Theoretical Approaches to Intercultural Comparative Historiography." ''History and Theory'' 35:4 (December 1996), 5-22. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2656(199612)35%3A4%3C5%3ASTATIC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R in JSTOR]
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| * Oswald Spengler; ''The decline of the West'' 2 vol (1918)
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| * Stoler, Ann L. "Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies." ''Journal of American History'' (Dec 2001), 831-864. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723(200112)88%3A3%3C829%3ATATTTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 in JSTOR]
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| * Thompson, James Westfall, and Bernard J. Holm; ''A History of Historical Writing'' (1942) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9276002 vol 1: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century online edition] [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58613485 vol 2: 18th and 19th centuries online edition]; detailed discussion of the work of major historians
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| * Toynbee, Arnold J. ''A Study of History'' 12 vol (1934-61); (2 vol abridgment 1957) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98819969 online abridged version v. 1-6]
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| * Voegelin, Eric. ''Order and History,'' 5 vol (1956-75)
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| *[http://serv.ul.cs.cmu.edu/zoom/record.html?id=15558 Woodward, C. Vann, ed. ''The Comparative Approach to American History'' (1968)]
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| ===Sociology and political science===
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| * Eisenstadt, S. N. ''The Political Systems of Empires'' (1968),
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| * Mann. Michael. ''The Sources of Social Power'' (1986) [http://www.amazon.com/Sources-Social-Power-Michael-Mann/dp/052131349X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196292394&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
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| * Meritt, Richard L. and Stein Rokkan, editors. ''Comparing Nations: The Use of Quantitative Data in Cross-National Research.'' Yale University Press, 1966; political science
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| * Sorokin, Pitirim A. ''Social Philosophies of an Age of Crisis.'' 1950 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=59413264 online edition]
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| * Sorokin, Pitirim A. ''Social and Cultural Dynamics'' (4 vol 1932; one-vol. edn., 1959).
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| * Tilly, Charles. ''Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons.'' Russell Sage Foundation, 1984.
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| * Tipps, Dean. "Modernization Theory and the Comparative Study of Societies: A Critical Perspective." ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' 15:2 (1973), 199-226. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-4175(197303)15%3A2%3C199%3AMTATCS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V in JSTOR]
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| ==See also== | | ==See also== |
| * [[History]] | | * [[History]] |
| ==External links==
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| * [http://history.wisc.edu/dunlavy/me/753-S05/753-S05-Sched.html The U.S. and German Political Economies Since the 1870s]
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| ====Notes==== | | ====Notes==== |
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